Posted on 12/25/2010 4:18:05 AM PST by LibWhacker
Scientists at Cornell are creating a 3D food printer. Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab's project will one day allow you to tweet what you're in the mood for and it will be printed up and ready to eat.
The "3D food printer" uses syringes filled with "raw food ink." You place the inks in the top of the printer, load a recipe and the machine will cook it up then print it out. Simple changes in the recipe will allow for the same food to be cooked in different ways, such as softer cookies.
The only inks that have been produced so far are dessert themed, as in cookie dough and chocolate. However, the team is working on a wider range of options, including turkey. The food will be squeezed out of a syringe in a prearranged pattern. The scientists believe that this device will save people the hassle of cooking.
While some might find this concept disturbing, Chef Homaro Cantu believes this will enhance the cooking experience. In his opinion it will do for food what email did for communication. He is even looking forward to printable sushi.
This product, unlike many of the others projects designed by Cornell, will be commercially available when completed.
Wonder how many millions of our tax dollars went to pay for this?
Idiots!
In order to really sell the thing they should have started with alcohol and various alcohol flavorings.
Bourbon, Canadian whiskey, scotch, Tequila, etc...
If cooking is a chore (which it isn't) then why would you want to enhance it? That's like saying, "We want to enhance the laundry experience."
As to the device...it sounds like they just took a 3-D printer and filled the hoppers with foodstuff rather than plastic. Basically an expensive pastry bag.
They say they are protecting us from getting food poisoning from our gardens, will they protect us from contaminated cartridges?
My daughter is a chef in a high-end restaurant. She is coming home today with an 11 lb. prime rib. I’ll ask her opinion...
Hmmm...
Printer-friendly paper plates??
Adobe comes out with a new variation of “Photoshop” - “Foodoshop”??
See Startrek:
Food replicator.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Lots of plastic ones available today, and some with metals (use lasers to sinter the metal powders as they are deposited).
Last night I had a thick slice of rare tenderloin with horseradish, cheesy potatoes, fresh green beans cooked in butter and dill, fresh salad and fresh crusty bread and butter.
Lets see a food printer match that.
Dirk Moeller came from a long line of carnivores and proudly ate animal flesh at every meal. Most people didn't do that anymore. And when they did eat meat, they picked out a tube of vatted meat product, made from cultivated tissue that never required the butchering of an animal, or even the participation of any sort of animal outside of the purely mythical. The best selling vetted meat product on the market was something called Kingston's Bison Boar™, some godforsaken agglomeration of bovine and pig genes stretched across a cartilaginous scaffolding and immersed in a nutrient broth until it grew into something that was meatlike without being meaty, paler than veal, lean as a lizard and so animal friendly that even strict vegetarians didn't mind tucking in a Bison Boar Burger™ or two when the mood struck them. Kingston's corporate mascot was a pig with a bison shag and horns, frying up burgers on a hibachi, winking at the customer in third-quarter profile, licking its lips in anticipation of devouring its own fictional flesh. The thing was damned creepy.The Android's Dream
Isn't that why we have frozen dinners and takeout?
This will be handy when all the wealth is in elite hands. Pity those who don’t have an Internet connection.
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